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Texas Pummeled By Rainfall And Floods, Trump: "There Is No Drought" In California; Libertarian Party Set To Pick Nominee At Convention; Crashed WWII Plane Removed From Hudson River; Baylor University "Horrified" By Extent Of Sex Attacks; Obama Says Trump Rattles Foreign Allies; What Role Will Marco Rubio Play?; Over 100 Doctors Ask Olympics to be Delayed or Moved Over Zika Virus Concerns; Kim Jong-Un's Childhood; Trump, Sanders Versus Clinton. Aired 12-1p ET

Aired May 28, 2016 - 12:00   ET

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[12:00:00] SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Fredricka Whitfield is off today. We are following dramatic rescues in parts of East Texas where flooding has killed at least two people, three others missing.

The area has been pounded by record-breaking rainfall and flooding has already damaged hundreds of homes. This weekend parts of Texas will be under water causing havoc for drivers.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It stalled out and we started getting our stuff to get out. We were -- crawling out of the car. The water was up in the car.

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WHITFIELD: Wow. Allison Chinchar is live with us in the Atlanta Weather Center. So Allison, tell us any relief that they are expected to get in the days, hours ahead, or more rainfall on the horizon?

ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, there will be temporary relief in terms of the roadways. The water there will start to recede, but it's the rivers, creeks and streams, those are going to keep rising for several days because it's more of a delayed effect and it's because of how much rain we've had.

Take a look at these numbers. This is the last 48 hours. See this pink area down here just north of Houston. That's Brenham, Texas. They had a 24-hour rainfall total of 17.5 inches of rain. That's the wettest calendar day they've ever had in recorded history.

So again, no wonder why they're having so many flooding problems, and we have the threat for some more rain in this area today. Not just rain, but also severe weather. There's a potential for large hail, damaging wind, and isolated tornadoes across portions of Texas.

Here's a look at the radar going forward from tonight into tomorrow. And again, you can see rain in a lot of these exact same areas.

Now, I want to say, they are only expected to get an additional two, three, possibly, most four inches of rain that doesn't sound like much, but it's on top of the 8, 10, 15 inches that many of these areas have already had, that's when it becomes a huge concern.

Another area that we are keeping an eye out is the tropics because take a look at this. This is the tropical storm warnings in place for up and down the South Carolina coast, as the tropical depression begins to make its way there.

More of the specifics on the tropical depression are this -- right now winds are about 35 miles per hour in this particular storm. That's only four miles per hour lower than a tropical storm would be.

So it's getting awfully close and we do expect it to make it up to tropical storm strength later on today. When it does, it will get the name bonny. The big concern we have is this low pressure as it gets much closer to the coast of South Carolina, places like Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island, Charleston, they're very low-lying.

And so you get all of that water that kind of funnels in to these areas and can cause flooding, mainly due to the storm surge, but you also get incredibly strong rip currents. The locals know about these, but not all the tourists.

Remember, this is a huge holiday weekend. So you have a lot of people flocking to the beaches to enjoy the very nice conditions. This is a look at the next 48 hours where you can see all of that rain that's going to come in to these areas.

Most places will pick up, say, about two to four inches, but some areas could pick up even more especially as the storm just kind of lingers along the coastline over the next couple of days.

We have a blocking pattern set in place right over here, and what that's going to do is prevent the storm from coming too far inland. That's actually great news for cities like Atlanta and Charlotte, but not good news for cities like Wilmington and a lot of the others that are along the coast -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right. Allison Chinchar, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Hope that they're all going to be safe there in Texas.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump telling California voters that he is going to solve the state's five-year drought.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. Where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea -- and I just met with a lot of the farmers, who are great people, and they're saying, we don't eastern understand it.

They don't understand. Nobody understands it, and I've heard this from other friends of mine in California where they have farms, up here, and they don't get water. I said, that's too bad. Is it the drought? No. We have plenty of water. So what's wrong?

Well, we shove it out to sea, and I said, why? And nobody even knows why, and the environmentalists don't know why. Now, they're trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish.

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MALVEAUX: Trump did not go into detail about how officials would open up the water, nor what science supports the claim that the drought is not real, but he did tout himself as a champion of the environment, saying, quote, "I've reserved many, many environmental rewards really, rewards and awards," close quote.

The Libertarian Party Convention underway now at this hour. The three-day event will culminate with the election of the party's presidential ticket and this year, it is that libertarians hoping all the turmoil among the major parties will push the voters their way.

The party's frontrunner, Gary Johnson, is a former two-term governor of New Mexico, who ran for president as a libertarian in 2012.

[12:05:05]Johnson is polling at around 10 percent nationally despite being usually left off of presidential surveys. Earlier today in an interview with CNN's Michael Smerconish Johnson argued in order to compete, he needs to be included in polling and debates.

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GARY JOHNSON, LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Only chance of winning, to be in the presidential debates. To be in the presidential debates you've got to be in the polls. Look, just put us in the polls. I think that by putting us in the polls they'll be attention drawn to what it is that we're saying, and -- you know what? If that happens, anything's possible.

MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN HOST, "SMERCONISH": Are there states where Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, should you both win nominations on Sunday, can actually capture electoral college states?

JOHNSON: I think anything is possible, Michael, given the -- given just how divisive the two major parties are right now. Clinton and Trump, back to just the notion that most people are libertarian. This is just an unbelievable opportunity to move America in a direction that really they actually desire.

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MALVEAUX: So let's talk all about the Libertarian Party, if the ticket could play a role in this year's presidential election, joining me, Brian Doherty, he is a senior editor of "Reason "magazine, and also a libertarian covering the party's convention in Orlando.

And joining me also is Larry Sabato who is the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. So Brian, I want to start off with you first. Thank you very much both of you for joining us in this discussion.

The fact that we're talking about this now is significant. That is not usually happened. This could play some sort of significant role. Do you think that there's a chance that this is going to impact the general election?

BRIAN DOHERTY, "REASON" MAGAZINE: Yes. The hope for the libertarians is that the dissatisfaction with Clinton and Trump is so huge, and especially Republicans, the whole never Trump movement.

The Libertarians think if they nominate these two Republican governors, Johnson and Weld, they have a better chance of capturing the sort of traditional free market Republican.

Even the Romney Republicans who find Trump's demeanor and attitude uncongenial and yes, they can make record numbers and I think that's probably the case.

MALVEAUX: Larry, we saw Governor Bill Weld, who is the likely vice presidential candidate, former governor of Massachusetts, now a part of the libertarian, the party here, getting a really a chilly reception, "Politico" reporting last night he was even booed. Is this the dream ticket that people are talking about or could this be in trouble?

LARRY SABATO, DIRECTOR, UVA'S CENTER FOR POLITICS: Well, they have to vote separately on the vice presidential nomination. So it's not a sure thing either that Johnson will win the presidential nomination. And certainly that Weld will win the vice presidential nomination.

If, however that ticket wins, if it's these two former liberal Republican governors, I think they'll add some spice to an election season that already is full of spice. I think it's a fascinating addition.

I don't think they're likely to get any electoral votes, but, remember, it only took 2.7 percent for Ralph Nader in the year 2000. He was running as the Green Party candidate, to switch the White House from Al Gore to George W. Bush.

Nader cost Gore Florida and New Hampshire and either one of those states would have elected Gore. So you never know. You know, it's possible. I think it's unlikely but it's possible that they'll have some impact.

MALVEAUX: And Larry, of course, this is an election nobody knows, really, what's going to happen and so many twists and turns here, but who do you think the Libertarian Party hurts or helps here in terms of pulling voters to one candidate or the other, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

SABATO: Well, traditionally, Libertarians hurt Republicans a bit more than Democrats. That's been true in a number of state elections. You know, this is an unusual ticket. If they get a lot of attention, I'm not sure that that is a certainty. They have so many positions that Republicans won't like and so many positions that Democrats won't like that most of their voters may well come from people who wouldn't vote otherwise.

MALVEAUX: And Brian, the Libertarian Party on the ballot in 50 states now. Is this the alternative that voters are looking for?

DOHERTY: Yes. You know, Gary Johnson certainly thinks so. He says over and over that he thinks most Americans are libertarian. I've been following this business for many decades at this point, and I'm not as confident as Gary is, but if anyone has any belief in free markets, any belief in a rational non-interventions foreign policy, they have nowhere else to go.

They can't go to Clinton. They can't go to Trump, if you believe in free trade. So yes, I think he will prove that there's may be more libertarians than most political analysts think.

[12:10:07]MALVEAUX: Brian, I want to follow-up with that point there, though, because look at the party in terms of money and organization that is critical to move forward, do they have any kind of -- the cash and infrastructure really to be any kind of serious threat in November?

DOHERTY: Well, the one thing they have is what you mentioned, that they'll probably be on the ballot in every state and that's something no other third party has. You're right. They do not yet have a lot of money.

Johnson has said to me that he thinks $50 million is the minimum that they need to really get something going and definitely don't have that now. Johnson and Weld would probably be a ticket that could potentially attract big Republican money that can't tolerate Donald Trump.

MALVEAUX: Brian, who are they clapping for behind you? We hear that huge applause.

DOHERTY: They are having a vote on platform plank about whether to be for or against the death penalty.

MALVEAUX: OK. All right. Thank you. Looks like there's a lot of excitement there at the convention. Over the weekend, the fact we are talking about the Libertarian Party in and of itself, a real change in this election cycle. Thank you so much, Brian Doherty and Larry Sabato, really appreciate it.

Just moments ago, World War II plane crashed into the Hudson River, pulled out of the water. We go live there, next.

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MALVEAUX: This is just moments ago, the Vintage World War II plane that crashed into the Hudson River was pulled out of the water. The 56-year-old, William Gordon, died in that accident. He's going to be remembered in a fly over later today. I want to bring our CNN Rachel Crane who is following the story joining us live here. So explain to us what we just saw.

RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, just moments ago behind me that World War II plane that was a single seater was removed from the Hudson via a crane. Now that was the Army Corps of Engineers as well as NYPD that worked together on that removal.

[12:15:03]And as you can see in the images, the plane is quite intact. Now, we're told by the NYPD the plane is headed to the Wall Street Heliport at the moment where the FAA will take over the investigation and continue it, and then from there a private company will take the plane to Delaware -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right. Rachel Crane, appreciate it. Thank you so much.

Ahead, a fundamental failure to help student victims of sexual assaults, that is what an investigation found on the Baylor University campus. We have that, up next.

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MALVEAUX: Texas' Baylor University will create a new tasks force to deal with alleged sexual assaults on its campus. This week, the school demoted its president, Ken Starr, and fired the football coach. An internal investigation found that the school failed to help victims of sexual assaults.

CNN's Ed Lavandera talked to one of the women who was attacked on campus.

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Suzanne, the chairman of Baylor's Board of Regents says he was shocked and outraged by the details that he saw in its internal investigation into how the university handled allegations of sexual assault on campus. But despite that, Ken Starr wasn't fully fired.

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LAVANDERA (voice-over): Baylor University is demoting its president, Ken Starr, and firing their head football coach, Art Briles. Members of the university's Board of Regents says they are, quote, "horrified by the findings of an independent investigation."

[12:20:04]The scathing report found a fundamental failure to respond to students' sex assault allegations, and detailed troubling mishandling of rape by players on the Texas school's nationally ranked football team.

The Baylor bombshell happened under the leadership of Starr, who led the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Starr hasn't responded to CNN's request for comment.

An attorney for one sexual assault victim and former Baylor student, Jasmine Hernandez, isn't surprised by the findings. IRWIN ZALKIN, ATTORNEY REPRESENTING JASMIN HERNANDEZ: This is a serious issue in terms of Jasmine's case we'll be able to show Baylor had prior knowledge of a huge problem with sexual assault on their campus, especially through the athletic program, and they just did nothing. They did absolutely really nothing to protect these female students.

LAVANDERA: Baylor is apologizing and pledges to do better. Hernandez is suing the school for how they handled her rape by football player, Tevin Elliott (ph) back in 2012. Elliott one of two football players who was ultimately convicted of sexual assault is serving a 20-year sentence.

JASMIN HERNANDEZ, FORMER BAYLOR STUDENT: I'm just still always a little bit surprised that they never did anything except kind of re- route me to other people who in turn re-routed me to other people that I never really got help.

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LAVANDERA: Baylor University says it released the key findings of its internal investigation to be open with the university community. However, what's been released so far doesn't specify just how many sexual assault victim there have been and how many cases the report investigated. We've asked, but haven't been given those answers -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Thank you, Ed. President Obama says world leaders are worried about the rise of Donald Trump.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they're rattled by him.

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MALVEAUX: Trump says, Obama is the one that's rattled. Trump's role on the global stage, up next.

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MALVEAUX: Donald Trump responding to President Obama's comments this week where he called out the Republican nominee for rattling world leaders.

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TRUMP: So Obama gets on television. First of all, he's not supposed to be talking when he's in Japan about politics in our nation. OK? He's not supposed to. I think I got him rattled. He's the one that's rattled, you want to know the truth.

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MALVEAUX: So why is Trump's world view rattling international leaders? CNN's Clarissa Ward taking a look at the emergence on the global stage.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At first candidate Trump was the subject of international fascination and even amusement. But it didn't take long for the maverick contender to start ruffling feathers.

TRUMP: They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

WARD: International condemnation came in thick and fast. Mexico's former president compared him to Hitler. A Saudi prince called him a disgrace, and China's state-run newspaper denounced him as big- mouthed. The list went on.

International headlines warned of impending doom if he became the Republican nominee, "Madness," blared the cover of Germany's "Der Spiegel."

DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: I think his remarks are divisive, stupid, and wrong, and I think if he came to visit our country, I think he'd unite us all against him.

WARD: Today London's newly elected mayor, himself a Muslim, jumped on the bandwagon, calling Trump's views on Islam ignorant.

SADIQ KHAN, LONDON MAYOR: Donald Trump and his team, their views on Islam are ignorant. As he's inadvertently playing into the extremists' hands by giving the impression that western liberal values are incompatible with mainstream Islam or that it's a clash of civilizations.

TRUMP: Thank you, everybody.

WARD: Still, he does have one fan internationally. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has called Trump, quote, "an outstanding and talented personality."

(on camera): What's interesting is that since Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee the rhetoric from overseas has definitely softened considerably and we're likely to see that continue as world leaders begin to grapple with the very real possibility that they will have to deal with a President Trump. Clarissa Ward, CNN, London.

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MALVEAUX: All right. Let's dissect all this with Nicholas Burns, who served as undersecretary for Political Affairs in the George W. Bush White House, currently advising Hillary Clinton. Very good to see you, Nick, as always.

So let's just break this down. Let's take a look at each one of these elements here. When you look at these comments and you hear that world leaders are rattled, I guess from Trump's point of view, it's a good thing.

From Obama's it is not. The president says it is not. Is it good? Is it bad? Keep them guessing? Keep them a little on edge?

AMBASSADOR NICHOLAS BURNS, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Well, Suzanne, I think it's really negative for the United States if the leading presidential candidate of the Republican Party wants to keep all Muslims out of the United States.

He wants to -- he's repudiated and criticized in the most vulgar terms all Mexicans. He has also repudiated the NATO alliance. He's urged Japan and South Korea to have their own nuclear weapons.

He's threatening to walk out of our alliances worldwide and he supports torture and he is supports the killing of the families of terrorists. These are preposterous views.

I think the world is rattled because they can't imagine the world's strongest power the United States being led by someone as vulgar and uninformed as Donald Trump.

MALVEAUX: We heard the president call out Trump on those issues. He said overseas saying that some of his -- his views were either based on ignorance or a cavalier attitude about the whole thing.

What do you make of the president really breaking with the tradition of not speaking overseas, not criticizing overseas, a potential successor, who would come after him?

BURNS: Well, that was an old tradition I think way back, decades ago, in American politics. That our politics stopped at the water's edge. You didn't criticize other people, other American politicians when you are overseas.

But I think that's broken down a long time ago and I think these are extraordinary times. And President Obama was right to speak out. Donald Trump by experience, he's built casinos, golf courses, and hotels, is not prepared to do the job of the president.

But more importantly, think about temperament and think about his judgment. He is conducting an entire campaign to divide us from each other. Ethnic group from ethnic group. He's made misogynistic comments routinely about women.

This is not the type of person you want to have wield authority in the oval office and wield the most powerful destructive potential that we've ever put in the hands of any man or woman, that's our nuclear weapons force. [12:30:08] President Obama was in Hiroshima yesterday to say we have got to actually have a different way of looking at nuclear weapons. Can you imagine Donald Trump exercising that authority? Contrast this with Hillary Clinton, who I think is trying to run a campaign of strength and optimism about our future that we can handle our problems, and Donald Trump says, I think very pessimistically that we don't win anymore. He is completely unprepared, in my judgment, and I've worked for administrations of both political parties as a career foreign service officer, he's completely unprepared to be president. And I think he'd be a disaster for our country.

MALVEAUX: So Nicholas, I want to fast forward here if I can. If it does appear, likewise, if he does win, if he does win and you say he doesn't have the kind of preparation, certainly not the kind of preparation that Hillary Clinton has overseas. What does he do? What needs to happen? What needs to be put in place in terms of getting up to speed? Is that something that's possible? You know, working on the world stage as you have, for someone to do that?

BURNS: Well, it's a long way to November. I don't think he's going to win.

And I think we ought to judge him as a candidate. That's the most important thing for every citizen right now in the United States. Judge these two people, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Which one of them has the temperament, maturity, balance and then allusions (ph) and experience to be the president of the United States? It is hands down Hillary Clinton. I'm obviously advising her so I feel that way. But objectively speaking her experience as secretary of state, senator, first lady, advocate for children against Donald Trump's experience. She's shown an interest in the future of the country. He's never been public spirited until he ran this campaign. But I think he's a dangerous candidate because he has preposterous views that frankly have nothing to do with the views of every Republican president for the last 70 years. So for me it's a hands-down choice and I think we ought to focus on that choice for the American people.

MALVEAUX: Let's talk about some of the things he has mentioned here. President Obama just wrapping up his trip to Asia where some of the comments we're been seen as really having a big impact suggesting that Japan and South Korea should have their own nuclear weapons among other things and that he would be open to direct talks with North Korea.

And you have quite a bit of experience in that regard. What are your recommendations in terms of how to deal with North Korea? Many administrations including the one that you work with really has seen it as a lightning rod and then unpredictable player.

BURNS: Yes, and North Korea is probably the most dangerous regime in the world today. It's building a nuclear weapons capability. The most important thing for the United States to do is to strengthen our alliance with South Korea and with Japan. They are our treaty allies.

Donald Trump's threatened to dissolve those alliances. We have convinced the South Koreans and Japanese not to become nuclear weapons powers. Every president since Harry Truman has had that policy. Donald Trump has suggested they become nuclear weapons powers in the tinderbox of Asia.

So I think the way to deal with North Korea is strengthen those alliances, exactly the opposite of what Donald Trump has been saying.

MALVEAUX: And Nick Burns, just final question here, to button this up. What do you suppose that the president did speak about Donald Trump overseas, was he speaking to a domestic audience and saying, "Look, watch out, you know, do not vote for this guy," or was he speaking to the international audience trying to kind of allay some of the concerns of world leaders who he has spoken to about the potential of a Trump presidency?

BURNS: I think President Obama did the right thing. I think he was speaking, Suzanne, to both audiences.

As I've traveled overseas in the last couple of months I've been stunned by the number of senior level foreigners in government and in business who are genuinely worried about Donald Trump. Think of the damage he's already done.

When you say as he has said that we should keep 1.6 billion Muslims out of the United States that is damaging, the United States, our credibility and reputation in the Muslim world at a time when we need the Muslim people's everywhere to join us in the fight against terrorism. When he makes these terrible comments, vulgar comments about Mexicans and Latinos he's driving a wedge between United States and one of our closest friends and neighbors. And so I think he's already done damage and that's probably why President Obama felt a need to reassure the rest of the world. All of us are not like this. We do have sane, rational balanced people.

And certainly, I think Hillary Clinton is a very popular candidate in all of the allied countries because people perceive her to be strong and principled, and someone who can be a very good president of the United States in our foreign policy.

MALVEAUX: OK, Nicholas Burns, I'm sure the Trump camp would disagree with many of your points there, pointing out that they believe the Obama administration has been weak and its diplomacy around the world.

But Nick Burns, thank you so much. We appreciate your perspective and your time. It's always good to see you always. Republican ...

BURNS: Thank you Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: It's been my pleasure.

Republican Convention isn't until mid July in Cleveland and there are some outstanding questions about the big event, of course, including the role of Senator Marco Rubio. What role is he going to play?

[12:35:08] The STATE OF THE UNION'S Jake Tapper spoke exclusively with Rubio about just that this week. JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST, "STATE OF THE UNION": Suzanne, just a few weeks ago former presidential candidate Marco Rubio was still unsure whether or not he would even attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.

He earned 167 delegates during the primaries earlier this year. He still holds them until he officially releases them. In an exclusive interview with CNN he tells me his plans for Cleveland and the convention.

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TAPPER: When we last spoke, you said that you were not yet sure what you were doing, even if you were even attending the Republican Convention in Cleveland. Have you made a decision?

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yes. My sense is, I'm going to go to the convention.

TAPPER: You are?

RUBIO: And I don't know if I will have a role in the convention, but I have a lot of people going there that were supporters.

TAPPER: But if Donald Trump asked to you speak on his behalf, you would do so?

RUBIO: I would certainly -- yes. I want to be helpful. I don't want to be harmful, because I don't want Hillary Clinton to be president. Look, my policy differences with Donald Trump, I spent 11 months talking about them. So, I think they are well-understood. That said, I don't want Hillary Clinton to be president. If there's something I can do to help that from happening and it's helpful to the cause, I would most certainly be honored to be considered for that.

TAPPER: Are you planning on releasing your delegates?

RUBIO: Yes, in fact, basically, technically, have already, because Donald is going to have the majority number. And at that point, it will be irrelevant. So, if we haven't done so already, we will.

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TAPPER: Now, Rubio, obviously mincing no words with me about his support for Trump despite some misgivings on policy, politics and Mr. Trump's temperament. But Rubio will certainly stand with the Republican Party this fall perhaps with an eye on his own future within the GOP. Suzanne?

MALVEAUX: All right, thanks, Jake. Be sure to watch the full interview with Marco Rubio on "STATE OF THE UNION" that is tomorrow morning 9:00 eastern right here on CNN.

Ahead, more than a hundred doctors sounding the alarm on the Zika virus calling for Brazil to postpone or move the summer Olympics. Ivan Watson is following the story. Ivan? IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Suzanne. The World Health Organization is firing back saying there is not legitimate reason for postponing or cancelling the upcoming games here in Rio de Janeiro.

Well have more on that story after the break.

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[12:40:59] MALVEAUX: More than a hundred prominent doctors and professors want the Olympics to be postponed or even moved out of Brazil because of the Zika virus. In a letter to the World Health Organization, doctors called the Zika outbreak in Brazil unprecedented. And insisted it would be unethical to hold the games knowing the risks to public health.

In just a couple of months people from all over the world are going to pack into Rio de Janeiro and perhaps the biggest concern is they could catch Zika virus and take it back home.

Our Ivan Watson is following the story from Brazil. He is joining us on the phone. Ivan, just tell us how health officials are responding to this letter and to this call? This is very serious.

WATSON: It is very serious a direct warning from 150 doctors and medical researchers saying, "You have to move these Olympics." They're saying that it just simply is irresponsible to try to bring in a half million tourists from around the world, some of them could track the disease and then take it back to their home countries, particularly those who might be returning to poorer countries that don't have good health care systems.

However, the World Health Organization had since fired back saying there is no legitimate reason for delaying or moving the games. They say that the Zika virus is exists in some 60 countries around the world. They stand by their health advisory which is that basically, pregnant women should not come here and that people should practice safe sex, since there is evidence that the Zika virus is transmitted through sexual contact. And they're basically advising people to stay in air conditioned residences and to wear mosquito repellent and stay away from places with bad sanitation because those are breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

But I got to tell you Suzanne, there's a lot of bad sanitations in Rio de Janeiro, even though it's a beautiful city, and a lot of people I've talked to here, residents, they have contracted the Zika virus.

So this is a legitimate health risk both for visitors as well as for athletes. Suzanne?

MALVEAUX: And Ivan, how is it enforceable, anyway? I mean these are great recommendations, right? But you really can't control how people behave in that city?

WATSON: No, you can just give advice. And there is a public awareness campaign. There are signs up around, warning about mosquitoes. There are efforts to try to control the mosquito population.

And the city government says, "Listen, it's winter down here in the southern hemisphere at this time of year and usually there are fewer mosquitoes at this time of year."

But I got to be honest. It's not just Zika you have to worry about here. Brazilians have been living with dengue fever, a sickness that has much more kind of extreme, immediate symptoms when you contract that. That's something that Brazilians have lived with for decades and is also a legitimate risk for people coming to visit this spectacular city.

MALVEAUX: All right, Ivan Watson, thank you so much for sounding the alarm on that one, very important.

Ahead, a close relative of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is discovered living a low-profile life here, in the United States.

[12:44:11] Just ahead, you're going to hear what she has to say about her nephew.

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MALVEAUX: Fascinating details are now emerging of North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-un and what kind of child he was. The revelations come from an aunt who helped raise him when he was a student at a boarding school in Switzerland. This woman and her husband defected to the U.S. years ago. And now live anonymously in United States. Well, that is until "The Washington Post" tracked them down.

Our Brian Todd has more.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They look like any other couple, walking in Central Park and through Time Square. But now "The Washington Post" says for nearly 20 years, this husband and wife have kept their true identities hidden.

The quiet owners of a small dry cleaning store say they are also the aunt and uncle of one of the world's most notorious dictators, North Korea's Kim Jong-un.

ANNA FIFIELD, WASHINGTON POST: They live an entirely unremarkable American immigrant life.

TODD: Kim's aunt, who says her given name, Ko Yong Suk, says she is the sister of Kim's mother Ko Yong Hui one of Kim Jong-il's wives.

KEN GAUSE, NORTH KOREA LEADERSHIP EXPERT, CNA: She is someone that I believe that Ko Yong Hui would trust, you know, obviously with the lives of her children.

TODD: Ko Yong Suk, told the "The Post" she traveled from North Korea to take care of Kim, his older brother and younger sister when they attended this boarding school in Switzerland.

FIFIELD: He was not a good student. That he did not enjoy studying.

TODD: Post reporter, Anna Fifield, interviewed Ko and her husband Ri Gang after uncovering their existence through a lawsuit they filed in South Korea. They insisted their face, the names they use in the U.S. and the location of their home and dry cleaning business not be revealed.

Fifield says, the couple tell a story of a young man who was privileged. And from early childhood apparently knew he would inherent the leadership of North Korea.

Kim's aunt said she took Kim and the siblings to Euro Disney, the French Riviera, took them skiing in the Alps. She describes Kim as being obsessed with basketball that he was sometime sleep with a ball under his arm. An obsession that would lead to some surreal moments with former NBA star Dennis Rodman.

Ko Yong Suk told "The Post" there was one day when a clear signal was sent that the young Kim would succeed his father, his 8th birthday.

[12:50:05] FIFIELD: It was a big party for him in Pyongyang and that he was presented with a general's army uniform on that day. And then there were real general whose were at that party who then, you know, bowed to this 8-year-old kid.

TODD: From that moment, Ko says, Kim's behavior changed. She describes Kim as intensely focused but "short-tempered and had a lack of tolerance."

FIFIELD: He was prone to having tantrums, almost that he would get in a huff about things when his mother, for example, visited and told him he shouldn't be spending so much time playing basketball, that he should be studying, he wasn't happy about that and would go on a hunger strike is what his aunt said about it.

TODD: Ko, told "The Post" in 1998 she and her husband sought asylum at the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland. Then they were taken to an American military base in Germany, questioned for months. When they got to America she says they received money and for a short time housing from the CIA.

The CIA would not comment on the aunt's interview with "The Washington Post."

Ko Yong Suk's husband Ri Gang says, he wants to go back to Pyongyang for a visit as a sort of goodwill ambassador between the U.S. and North Korea.

One analyst says, that would be a suicidal act. Ko says, she's trying to talk her husband out of it.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEO CLIP) MALVEAUX: And fresh attacks on the DNC by Bernie Sanders as a rift between the Vermont senator and the Clinton camp widens.

We've got those details, up next.

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[12:55:12] MALVEAUX: Donald Trump pouncing on a recent state department report that was highly critical of Hillary Clinton e-mail practices during her time as secretary of state.

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DONALD TRUMP (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I love e-mails. They never go away. Hillary, do you hear that? They never go. They never go away, Hillary.

You know, Hillary is missing, Hillary is missing 30,000 e-mails. I have people that will retrieve those e-mails. We are going to win the State of California because people are tired. People are tired of the Hillary Clinton's of the world. It's all talk, it's no action, it's crooked Hillary. It's the same stuff, and our country cannot take another four years of Obama.

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MALVEAUX: Joining me now at CNN is Scott McLean. So Scott, probably just a preview of what we're going to hear from Trump regarding the e- mail controversy in some of these future debates. Is it becoming clear how Clinton will respond and defend herself?

SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Suzanne. Well, look, Donald Trump wants to make the nickname crooked Hillary stick. And he's been using those e-mail or Clinton's e-mail controversy to do it.

The issue resurfaced this week after a critical state department inspector general's report found she broke department e-mail rules. Clinton, of course, used a private e-mail and private server when she was secretary of state. And she did hand over 30,000 e-mails to the government that she said were work-related, but she also deleted more than 30,000 that she said were personal.

Now, she's defending her decision to use a personal e-mail by saying that other secretaries of state did the same. But she also says she would do it differently if she had to do it over. But look, Suzanne, this issue is not going away for Hillary Clinton and that's because the FBI investigation into the issue is still ongoing.

MALVEAUX: And there also new signs of tension now between Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee. How do we think this is going to play out in the weeks ahead?

MCLEAN: Yeah, you're right, Suzanne. So the Sanders campaign is asking for two leaders of the Democratic National Committees to be removed from their positions, because the Sanders camp thinks they'll be biassed in favor of Hillary Clinton. One of them is the co-chairman of the platform committee, that drafts the policy statements for the party that are adopted at the convention.

Now, this really shows that there is still a lot of tension within the party as the nomination fight drags on. New poll has Clinton and Sanders in a dead heat in California, just 10 days ahead of the primary.

Now, Clinton has a big delegate lead as we know. And she says she's confident she'll be the nominee. But Sanders is not giving up. Yes, three campaign event today which is also his wedding anniversary and he's vowing to take his fight all the way to the convention even if it ruffles a lot of feathers in the party along the way. She also point out there's been so far no comment on Sanders' request from the Clinton camp or the party either, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right, Scott McLean, thank you very much. At least we'll wish him a happy anniversary today. Thank you Scott.

Any moment, Bernie Sanders will take the stage in California that is where he is in a dead heat with Hillary Clinton. You're seeing pictures there a lot, picture, going to take you there as soon as he starts to speak.

The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.

Hello again, thanks for joining me. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Fredricka Whitfield is off today.

There is a live picture there from Santa Barbara, California. And let's take a look at that.

Bernie Sanders campaign ,stop, about to get underway there. YOu see folks anticipating that, trying to grab a big win in California. Curved out a majority of the 475, yup, that's right delegates up for grabs. The race appears to be narrowing now. A new poll is showing Clinton with the lead, 46 percent of 44 percent.

Now, you know, that's in the margin of error making it basically a dead heat.

Dan Simon he is in Santa Barbara. And tell us about this. Bernie Sanders sharpening his message at all in the recent days? What are we anticipating from his today?

DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, hey, Suzanne.

Bernie Sanders doesn't seem to care whatsoever that Hillary Clinton seems to have what appears to be an insurmountable lead when it comes to the delegate map. He is campaigning hard in California. He's got this event at Santa Barbara City College he's got several more events today.

Hillary Clinton's once commanding lead has all but vanished. We'll see what happens when the voters go to the polls here on June 7th. If Sanders can somehow eke out a win here, it would certainly strengthen his argument that super delegates should come to his side. That, of course, is a farfetched element. But, of course, it would help him make the argument the more realistic scenario is that it would give him leverage when it comes to the party platform in Philadelphia, Suzanne.

[13:00:02] MALVEAUX: And tell us a little bit about what he has been saying. He's been aggressively criticizing DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz last week. We heard it also raising objections now to Dannel Malloy and Barney Frank. What is all that about?